Me too on about:blank

I ran SpyBot S&D a couple of days ago, it found a few more things than the adaware I ran before that. I am experiencing the about:blank browser hijack, It looks like that is the only spyware left on my system. I was even duped into paying for some spyware removal s/w that found some other stuff and then asked me to pay before it would clean. That didn't do it, live and learn. As a stopgap measure I installed and am running SpyWareGuard to keep the browser from being hijacked. However, it doesn't do this silently, so the annoyance level has increased until I searched around and found you guys! My log follows, as you caution, I defer to your wisdom before blasting anything on my system. Thank you.

I renamed the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NotWindows and dblclicked AppInit_DLLs, the value for this key is blank. That is Key= ....\NotWindows, Value name AppInit_DLLs, Type REG_SZ, Size 1, Type no. 00000001, Value has no characters in it.